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  • The UK government is planning to tighten the energy efficiency ratings required for buy-to-let mortgages, phasing in the changes through to 2028, but some mortgage lenders are implementing the rules early. The result could mean more collateral for green structured finance transactions as well as a lower risk of default.
  • Gore Street Energy Storage Fund, a close-end investment fund that invests in UK energy infrastructure assets, has launched a new capital raise to fund a pipeline of energy storage investments.
  • SRI
    The equity markets have ploughed nine times more capital into fossil fuels than green energy in the past decade, and lost $120bn as a result. The tide is turning, but the amounts going into clean power are still pitifully small compared with the needs, according to research by Carbon Tracker this week.
  • A study of 657,000 UK mortgages undertaken by Nationwide Building Society over the past year suggests that the greener building a mortgage is secured on, the lower the risk of default. Moreover, this relationship is not affected by a borrower’s wealth, the location, or the type of property.
  • The environmental, social and governance (ESG) agenda finally arrived in equity capital markets in 2020 with a flurry of activity across IPOs and convertible bonds.
  • ABS
    Residential Property Assessed Clean Energy lender Renew Financial is returning to the ABS market after a two year hiatus, adding volume to a sector that continues to shrink owing to regulatory headwinds and a preference for private placements.